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That said, this bug is much more common (and by "much more common" I
mean "still basically impossible to hit unless you were really
unlucky") on newer machines that have bigger TLB's and that could
happily have run in 64-bit mode without the disgusting abortion that
is x86 PAE, and a small part of me feels that anybody who hit this
problem on such a machine probably got whatever they deserved.

Classic Linus speak, and one of the reasons why we all love him so much!

We need fewer smooth talking politicians, and more honest engineers like him.

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Classic Linus speak, and one of the reasons why we all love him so much!

We need fewer smooth talking politicians, and more honest engineers like him.

Meh, if I ran that configuration, does that imply I'm stupid or something? How am I supposed to know this is 'bad'? It works! I can read e-mail, browse the web etc etc. Maybe it might not technically be 'sane'. But why not take this a stretch further: let's dump x86 NOW and mass migrate over to ARM (or whatever).

Yeah, real nice.

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x86 PAE is only a workaround for lazy software developer not wanting to do work fixing their code to 64bit. No-one in the know has installed a 32bit OS on performant x86 hardware made after 2003/2004 (amd/intel). ARM is not part of this discussion since it has no PAE and has 64bit processors only entering the market.

If after 10 years someone is still using 32bit ARM, i will include them in this category of idiots.